“The mountains may move,
and the hills may be shaken,
but my love will never be removed from you,
and my covenant of peace will never be shaken,”
This is what the Lord says—the one who has compassion on you.
(Isaiah 54:10).
Sometimes mountains move, but God’s love will never be shaken or taken from us. Jesus, the Servant of the Lord bore our punishment and made peace (Isaiah 53:5), a covenanted reality more steadfast than the earth’s crust, rooted in our Lord’s compassion. Nothing can separate us from his love.
To rejigger the words of an old Gershwin tune...
In time the Rocky’s may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay.
But…
God's love is here to stay!
An old friend, Len Sunukjian, wrote this: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword, or Corvid-19. No, despite all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Romans 8:35).
This is our heritage from the Lord (54:17).
David Roper
4.6.20
